Bois Mort
Light & sound Installation
2015
Memory Lane:
“Memory Lane was inspired from several locations in the districts of Ribadesella and Llanes, Asturias (Spain) which shape Félix Luque Sánchez and Iñigo Bilbao Lopategui’s childhood and youth memories. Better yet, these natural environments – strands, rocky areas, woodland – do not simply inspire this project: they literally feed it. Turned into data via 3D scanning and modelling, these locations served as mould to the sculpted pieces the final installation consists of”.
“The result is an extremely detailed reproduction of these places, but at the same time a ghostly, distant and incomplete representation, that gradually becomes a fiction. Together with Damien Gernay, the three artists elaborate a particular imitation of nature, which is captured with the most accurate precision allowed by current technology, and at the same time transform it into something consciously artificial.”
“By converting nature into data, the artists create a sculptural representation with its own physicality. Using 3D modelling software, CNC milling machines, mechatronics and electronic custom systems, they are able to create a completely different reality.
The result is a parallel existence, with its own behaviors and language, which no longer belong to the humans who imagined them, but to the machines that shaped them.”
Download “Realms of memory” by curator Paul Waelder about Memory Lane
Bois Mort:
For the project Memory Lane the artists 3D scanned a small forest situated in the back of Iñigo’s house in Asturias. It’s a snag forest; dying trees and branches naturally creates chaotic architectures.
Inspired by this landscape, they developed a simple assembling system capable of generating complex structures using light tubes (100 units of 36w TLD). These electronic branches generate light behaviors. And sound is then transduce and amplified from the electromagnetic fields of the electronic lights components, using loudspeakers. It is a transducer of a physical signal (light - electricity) into another (sound).
The installation thus creates an electronic and poetic image of a concrete territory dear to the artists' memories.
Credits
Bois Mort by Félix Luque in collaboration with Damien Gernay
Technic: 100 TLD 36W lamps, 100 36W Ballast, 100 VIP90/2. One LanBox LCX. 4 LanBox 788LD+ DMX dimmers, Custom electronics, 32 speakers, 32 microphones, one Apple MacMini Computer, Custom software.